
Irish Folklore with Eddie Lenihan
The Blindboy Podcast
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Are You Away With the Fairies?
In ireland, under catholic tradition, there was no contradiction whatever between religion and the fairies. It's to stat that if a person developed mental illness, t that wasn't the person. And your real relative is away with the fairies in the forest, and they've left behind this person was a illness,. Well, people you see, will always look for explanations. There was just a huge amount of infant mortality. There was that too in ireland, and it was a way to go. That's not your child, that's a changeling. To bury the little child under a fairy bush, it was the perfect place to bury him. Because what more secure place
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